Can I re-approve a comment that I accidentally deleted?

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  bsabian · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 2:07 pm

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  I accidentally deleted a comment that one of my followers made. On my iPhone, I still have a record of the notification of his comment along with the text of the whole comment. Is there a way to re-approve it and have it posted with the rest of the comments on that entry?

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 6:29 pm

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  If you unapproved the comment, then you can go to the Comments page in your blog dashboard and re-approve it. If you trashed the comment, same thing, you can go to the Comments page, click the “Trash” link at the top and un-trash it. If you permanently deleted the comment though, then it’s gone.

  I did check your Comments page just now and I see that there are two recent comments from Michael Forbes Wilcox that are both approved. Maybe one of those is the one you were looking for and you already fixed it!
  https://bsabian.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=all

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  bsabian · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 6:48 pm

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  Thanks for the prompt reply. I was able to restore the comment.

  Bruce

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 9:08 pm

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  Great! I was wondering if that’s what you did. :)